Stacy Agee Szczesiul is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Prior to joining the faculty at UML, she was a teacher at the League School in New York City and at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire. Szczesiul earned a BA in Political Science and an MEd in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. She has an Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Recently, Szczesiul has partnered with the National Parks Service to develop a sustainable leadership development model for the organization. Her current research focuses on organizational leadership teams, schools as teacher workplaces, and second-stage teachers. She can be reached at: stacy_szczesiul@uml.edu